but in this convo, as with others, there's a kind of rooting for the home team thing going on. first, there's the desire for them to be more or less educated, more or less white, more or less racist, more or less well off. as brad said, the goal is to blunt a tendency on the left to find "bad" identity characteristics as the explanation for why they "get off their asses" and do shit. to blunt that tendency then, we'd want to find positive identity characteristics to explain "getting off their asses."
the contention seems to be this: their identity seems to be related to why they have the views they have and, in turn, why they get off their asses and do something. the dealio is, if they are more educated than "average," then this doesn't bode well. if they are more well off than "average," then this doesn't bode well. bode well for what? the left.
shag
At 11:51 PM 4/20/2010, Alan Rudy wrote:
>Heck I though this hear, hear was here, here and about Shag's "what's got
>yer knickers in so much of a twist" query... but, anyway, here's some more
>hear over here... haven't we beaten this to death enough, yet?
>
>
>On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 7:00 PM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu>wrote:
>
> > Hear, hear!
> >
> >
> > On 4/20/10 12:53 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> On Apr 20, 2010, at 1:35 PM, Chip Berlet wrote:
> >>
> >> I find much of the conversation on this topic here at LBO elitist, glib,
> >>> and frankly disgustingly over-privileged and uncaring about the real
> >>> suffereing of others in the real world. Forgive me if I choose to not
> >>> participate any longer. Enjoy your armchair pontificating.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Oh please. What a bunch of grandiose high-horsery.
> >>
> >> There's a reason that the likes of the Ford Foundation, that bastion of
> >> the common folk, likes to fund research on the far right. It focuses
> >> attention on a threat that is as old as the hills, thereby deflecting
> >> critical attention from the kinds of Democrats supported by the Ford
> >> Foundation. It would be a lot more fruitful to develop a progressive
> >> movement that's independent of the Democratic Party and foundation
> >> program officers. Getting all hot and bothered about the far right just
> >> encourages a deadend of lesser evilism.
> >>
> >> Doug
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